Dec 8, 2002
I went out to see Bollywood/Hollywood last night at Cumberland. This is one of those movies which, although bad, is not quite bad enough so as to be enjoyable. The acting was wooden, the comic timing was off and the chemistry between the principal cast was almost non-existent. The song and dance scenes, for … Read more
Dec 6, 2002
December’s rare groove selections from the selecta himself, Eddie C. Once again, Ed DJs in Banff, Alberta at Zona’s Bistro on Thursdays and at the Saltlik on Sundays.
Rock Creek Park – Blackbyrds Los Conquistados – Johnny Hammond Thousand Fingered Man – Candido Slop Jar Blues – Donald … Read more
Dec 2, 2002
There were two nicely conflicting articles in today’s Globe & Mail. The first article concerns the creation of a coalition on Québec sovereignty while the second, a commentary by Stephen Clarkson, points out the United States’ indefatigable desire for total North American … Read more
Dec 1, 2002
I recently finished browsing, reading and re-reading Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan trades Lonely City and Gouge Away. I already have Spider’s Thrash on order and it should arrive any day now. Yes, I am little behind the times but I don’t normally read comics and am too lazy to buy each release … Read more
Nov 26, 2002
I just spent the past few minutes signing twenty release documents and witnessing our CEO’s signature on those same twenty documents. I’ll have to do it all over again tomorrow for the releasees’ documents. The good thing is that the $2 million counterclaim and our subsequent $12 million counterclaim vanish in a puff of legal … Read more
Didn’t make it to PyCon? Watch some of the presentations here.
MongoDB lacks Unix domain socket support. Using a file socket rather than a TCP socket results in better performance. “Running the same benchmarks gives [a] time of 35.8s, vs 43.9s over TCP, and 28.9s with the RAM cache vs 31.1s on TCP.” Here’s a patch implementing domain sockets for MongoDB.
A nice HOWTO on importing an existing Git repository into a fresh SVN repository, complete with history. The commit dates will be off, but you knew that anyway.
“At the Olympics, the blink of an eye can be all that separates the gold medalist from the 10th-place finisher. In some events, this is obvious. But in others, with athletes racing one by one, the closeness of the race is harder to perceive. Listen to the differences below.”
“Web designer Joshua Lane, currently best know for doing fancy web stuff at Virb.com, has overhauled his personal site in ways that are aesthetically pleasing and visually instructive.” I may want to copy this for my site redesign, whenever it happens.